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New Democracy (Sweden)

New Democracy
Ny Demokrati
FoundersIan Wachtmeister
Bert Karlsson
Founded4 February 1991
Dissolved25 February 2000
HeadquartersStockholm and Gothenburg
IdeologyRight-wing populism[1][2][3]
National liberalism[4]
National conservatism[4]
Economic liberalism[5][6][7]
Pro-Europeanism[6]
Political positionRight-wing
ColoursYellow
Website
nydemokrati.se (defunct)

New Democracy (Swedish: Ny Demokrati, NyD) was a political party in Sweden. It was founded in 1991 and elected into the Riksdag in the 1991 Swedish general election. It lost all its seats in the Riksdag in the subsequent election in 1994, and its subsequent decline culminated in bankruptcy in February 2000, at which time it retained only one city council post. Local factions of New Democracy reformed into minor parties such as Sjöbopartiet, which experienced mixed success.

New Democracy campaigned on an agenda of reform and restricted immigration, initially on economic rather than cultural grounds. Its economic policy, stressing the importance of entrepreneurship and deregulation, was generally perceived as right-wing. The party favored Swedish application for European Union membership, which was attained in 1995. It also called for wide-scale political reform, including cutting government departments, reducing the Riksdag to 151 members and electing Prime Minister by direct ballot.

These years were the only time a right-wing populist party had been represented in the Riksdag until the election of members of the Sweden Democrats in September 2010.[8][9]

  1. ^ Rydgren, 2006, p. 122.
  2. ^ Aylott, Nicholas (2011), "Parties and Party Systems in the North", The Madisonian Turn: Political Parties and Parliamentary Democracy in Nordic Europe, University of Michigan Press, p. 311
  3. ^ Bornschier, Simon, National political conflict and identity formation: The diverse nature of the threat from the extreme left and extreme populist right, p. 192
  4. ^ a b Priester, Karin (2012). Rechter und linker Populismus: Annäherung an ein Chamäleon. Campus Verlag. p. 231. ISBN 9783593397931.
  5. ^ Rydgren, 2006, pp. 49-51.
  6. ^ a b Dieter Fuchs, Hans-Dieter Klingemann (2011). Cultural Diversity, European Identity and the Legitimacy of the EU. Edward Elgar. p. 192
  7. ^ Dimitri Almeida (2012). The Impact of European Integration on Political Parties: Beyond the Permissive Consensus. Routledge. p. 135
  8. ^ Pihlstrøm, Kjell (14 September 2010). "Hva skjer med Sverigedemokraterna på vippen?". Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (in Norwegian). Retrieved 25 December 2010.
  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference expo was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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